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cessa19
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im 15 and i am going to be competing in the uab regional sci fair in the spring of 2002. my project is on personal space and for this project i decided to record how far people stand from each other in a public elevator. therefore, i decided to record and perform all of my experiments on one of uab's public elevators. i would spend hours at a time on the elevator and some people found me suspicious. however, they usually asked me what i was doing and i would tell them about the project to aviod further suspicion. despite this, some people still found me suspicious and reported me to the campus police. while i was riding the elevator, a policeman walked into the full elevator and told me to step outside. he then radioed in that "he had the suspect in custody." we were then met by another policeman and eventually another one came. they told me i was "under arrest for criminal trespassing" (without even letting me explain anything and in front of a lot of people). this made me very upset and i began to cry. they then asked me for information such as my name, address, etc. i then took them to my mothers office and on the way i got more than 3 steps in front of the three policemen they proceeded to tell me to "come back closer to them bc i was too far". while in my mother's office, they said they were goin to write up a report... is this false arrest and/or false imprisonment and what should i do to get the record straight?